The quest for happiness is back with a vengeance. The bookstore’s self-help section is overflowing. Colleges offer courses on happiness, and they are oversubscribed. Institutes that present “pleasant ...

In The Politics of Happiness, Derek Bok takes a very different tack, basing his argument almost exclusively on recent empirical research into the nature of happiness. Bypassing the history of ideas ...

The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the ...

Ask a Christian if she’s blessed and she’ll reply—or at least she’ll know she’s supposed to reply—yes. Ask her if she’s happy, and her instinct might be to deny it, whatever the reality.

Everyone wants to be happy. That is the great pursuit that begins the day we are born. The new born babe crying for his milk, the toddler trying to walk ...

Love and holiness are communicable attributes of God. Love and holiness are indispensable to the genuine Christian life. Love and holiness are what the world needs to see most in the body of Christ.

One other common theme from the pulpit: God is interested in your character, not your happiness. This is undoubtedly the most damaging message I've received in the 20-plus years since my baptism.

The San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, a correctional facility located on the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay, seems an unlikely place to find happiness.. But the Rev. George Williams, a ...

Vatican City, May 30, 2014 / 05:53 am. In his first daily homily since returning from the Holy Land Pope Francis centered on the theme of Christian joy, explaining that it comes not from our ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...